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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: Franklin (search)
ld, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin West, Ezra Stiles, Noah Webster, Jay, Adams, Jefferson, and Washington. In England, where his affections strike such deep root that he considers establishing there his permanent abode, he is in relationship, more or less intimate, with Mandeville, Paine, Priestley, Price, Adam Smith, Robertson, Hume, Joseph Banks, Bishop Watson, Bishop Shipley, Lord Kames, Lord Shelburne, Lord Howe, Burke, and Chatham. Among Frenchmen he numbers on his list of admiring friends Vergennes, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Turgot, Quesnay, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Condorcet, Lavoisier, Buffon, D'Alembert, Robespierre, and Voltaire. It is absurd to speak of one who has been subjected to the moulding of such forces as a product of the provinces. All Europe has wrought upon and metamorphosed the Yankee printer. The man whom Voltaire kisses is a statesman, a philosopher, a friend of mankind, and a favourite son of the eighteenth century. With no softening of his patriotic fibre or lo
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
er the Gaslight, 229 Unitarian Christianity, 331 United States magazine, the, 286 Universal beauty, 165 Universal Dictionary, 115 Universal Instructor in all Arts and sciences, etc., 15 Unknown way, the, 271 Unseen Spirits, 280 Untaught Bard, 163 Upside down, 305 V Valla, Laurentius, 68 Van Buren, Martin, 239, 250 Van Doren, C., 262 n., 289 n. Vane, Sir, Harry, 4, 45 Vanity of Vanities, 157 Vasconselos, 317 Vaughn, William, 3-4 Velasco, 224 Vergennes, 91 Vermont wool Dealer, the, 228 Verplanck, G. C., 240 Very, Jones, 333 Veteran, the, 230 Vicar of Wakefield, the, 284 View of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, a, 139 View of the controversy between great Britain and her colonies, a, 136 View of the political system of the United States, 146 Villeneuve, 246 Vindication of the British colonies against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman, a, 128 Vindication of the conduct of the Hou